Sunday, October 24, 2010

This one took a while for people to guess. It's such a good movie. The answer is [highlight the invisible text] BURNT MONEY (2000) from Argentina. Really intense crime drama about "the twins" who aren't twins but gay lovers. You should rent it.

I've seen this one. This director, Marcelo Piñeyro mad an even better movie, the F A N T A S T I C The Method. Noriega and Pablo Echarri deliver killer performances in both movies. In The Method there is also an incredible actor that I've never seen in another picture, Eduard Fernandez. I'd like to know more of his career.

Andrew, Argentina has made wonderful movies this last decade. My favorite is El Aura, a magnificent Coenbros-like perfect crime noir, starred by Ricardo Darín. It was directed by the same guy who made international hit, Nine Queens (remade in Hollywood as Criminal), Fbien Bielinsky, unfornately deceased years ago, soon after he made El Aura.

I'd also recommend the movies by Pablo Trapero (his best is a climatic faux thriller, El Bonaerense, but also Familia Rodante and Lion's Den), Daniel Burman (his Berlin entry El Abrazo Partido - Almodóvar stole his title - is superb and very very moving and funny, and also Family Law), and, specially all the three movie by festival sensation Lucrecia Martel.

This guy, Juan Jose Campanella, made fine movies, including his best movie, last Oscar winner The Scret in Their Eyes, but Luna de Avellaneda and Son of the Bride are also lovely.

If you really want to go deep into recent Argentine cinema, there are a lot of very good movies, like Historias Minimas, XXY, La Senãl (directed by Darín, fantastic performance in it)...

I think South Korea, Romania and Argentina had the best movies of the 00's.